Consider the leadership theories and styles that have been addressed during Week 1, as well as their value to advanced nursing practice. Reflect upon your current leadership roles within the profession and respond to the following. Select one leadership theory or style that aligns with your personal philosophy and leadership stance. Explain the selected theory or style, and discuss how it can be applied in your future MSN role. Discuss your current leadership roles (formal and informal),...

Purpose This assignment provides the student with an opportunity to assess his or her level of nurse executive competency in numerous areas at the end of the course. The student will compare this postcourse assessment to the precourse assessment to evaluate areas of growth and need for further development. NR632 AONL Nurse Executive Competency Self-Assessment Guidelines and Rubric (Week 8) (Links to an external site.) Due Date: Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of Week 8 Students are given th...

Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to provide learners with the opportunity to disseminate evidence-based practice to colleagues in the healthcare environment and to provide learners with the opportunity to communicate a scholarly project in a professional manner. NR632 W7 CGE PowerPoint Presentation Guidelines and Rubric (Links to an external site.) NR632 CGE PowerPoint Presentation Template (Links to an external site.) Course Outcome This assignment enables the student t...

This week, you will complete a PowerPoint presentation of your project. Think about your most immediate presentation opportunity and target audience. Based on your experience, recommended reading, and personal research, what are some of the key strategies necessary to effectively connect with your target audience? Solution: Project presentation is one of the ways of ensuring that the project reaches its targeted audience successfully. To ensure a successful project presentation, the project lead...

Purpose This assignment helps the student work through project closure. Through the closing process, the project manager secures the acceptance of the project's final products or services from the stakeholders and customer. A completion document is created that verifies the milestones while reflecting on what the project team learned while working on this project; the lessons learned help us improve future projects. To assist you, there are completion document and lessons learned templates&nbsp...

The term closing for projects is a misnomer. Many times, the PM and/or the team were the champions of the change and you drove the passion and motivation. Far too many amazing projects revert back to the prior status quo not long after the PM team has moved onto their next project. Just because you and your team have done a great job in planning and executing the project and it was running well when you left, doesn't mean that you can just assume it will continue successfully. How do we sustain ...

As alluded to in the lesson introduction, this week's discussion will focus on relevant professional organizations and scholarly journals of interest and value to the nurse executive. You can choose to focus on one of the following directions for your discussion this week. Executive leadership practice: Identify at least one professional organization and one scholarly journal that you feel would be valuable for you to be actively involved with to enhance your role as a nurse leader. What is...

When we think of advocacy, many nurses think about how they advocate for their patients and/or families. Or you may think of situations where you advocate for a colleague, direct report, or team. Those are all legitimate aspects of advocacy and important for nurses. You've probably heard an instructor or mentor say that in aspiring to executive-level leadership, a transition occurs in your outlook. Your view expands exponentially as you become responsible for many teams and sometimes an entire o...

Cultural diversity—along with the currently popular concept cultural humility—is an evidence-based concept that has evolved over time and is a priority among professional organizations and accrediting bodies. In most instances when your institution, team, or program is reviewed, you'll be asked some questions about these concepts. As you think about your project, share how you see your project being sensitive to cultural diversity or cultural humility in your organization or target population. A...

Purpose The monitoring and controlling of processes and outputs is critical to the success of the project. It is the responsibility of the project manager (PM) to measure the progress toward achieving the objectives while monitoring any deviations from the plan and initiating immediate corrective action to avert negative consequences to the project. The project manager must make sure that the I's are dotted, and the T's are crossed. To assist you, there is a template and sample of a monitor ...